Billy Bush

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William Hall "Billy" Bush (born October 13, 1971 in New York City ) is an American television and radio presenter . He is part of the Bush family clan , which also includes former Presidents George HW Bush and George W. Bush .

life and career

Bush is the son of the entrepreneur Jonathan Bush . He attended an Anglican private school in Middletown (Rhode Island) and graduated in 1994 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the private Colby College in Waterville (Maine) . He then worked as a spokesperson for regional radio stations in New Hampshire and Washington, DC From 2001 onwards, he was employed as a correspondent and presenter on various NBC programs. Since 2004 he has been anchorman of the US-wide broadcast five times a week receivable infotainment telecast Access Hollywood . Bush reported for NBC from the 2004 Summer Olympics , 2006 Winter Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics .

Billy Bush hosted the final selection for Miss Universe five times for NBC, each time together with a colleague : 2003 and 2004 with Daisy Fuentes , 2005 with Nancy O'Dell and 2009 with Claudia Jordan . In the same years he also moderated the finals for the Miss USA election with the same colleagues (except in 2009 with Nadine Velazquez instead of Claudia Jordan) . In the comedy Die Frauen von Stepford (2004) he had a cameo appearance as the host of a fictional game show. When the television show for the presentation of the 2008 Golden Globe Awards was canceled in January 2008 because of the strike by the Writers Guild of America , Billy Bush gave the press conference with Nancy O'Dell to announce the winners. In April 2008, Bush hosted five episodes of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? On behalf of Meredith Vieira . Since 2008 he has hosted the radio talk show The Billy Bush Show , which is produced by the Westwood One network and broadcast throughout the USA Monday through Friday. In 2010 he had a cameo appearance in the comedy men's trip (original title: Get Him to the Greek ). Also in 2010 he made his acting debut in a supporting role in the feature film Reine Fellsache - Now it's getting hairy ( Furry Vengeance ).

Trump recording

In the context of the 2016 US presidential campaign , Billy Bush gained national attention in October 2016 when a recorded audio tape was released from a conversation with him and presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2005. In the recording, Trump bragged to Bush in vulgar language about experiences of sexual assault on women and Bush also used unsociable words. One of the women Trump spoke about in a derogatory way was Bush's former colleague Nancy O'Dell. Shortly after the recordings were released, Billy Bush sent an apology via NBC Universal in which he regretted, among other things, that he had "acted". On October 9, 2016, NBC announced that Bush had been suspended indefinitely from hosting the Today Show because of his choice of words and the role he played in speaking with Trump . He was finally released a few days later. In an interview in mid-October 2016, Trump's wife Melania accused Billy Bush of inciting her husband to make indecent remarks about women.

Private life

Billy Bush has been married since 1998. He has his main residence in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters . Billy Bush is a cousin of ex-President George W. Bush and ex-Governor Jeb Bush .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Patricia Dreyer, Veit Medick : Donald Trump bragged about sexual assault. In: manager magazin. manager magazin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, October 8, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Trump scandal video: NBC leaves host Billy Bush on leave. In: Spiegel Online . October 10, 2016, accessed June 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/nancy-o-dell-donald-trump-billy-bush-video-1201882070/
  4. ↑ David A. Fahrenthold: Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005. In: The Washington Post. October 8, 2016, accessed October 8, 2016 .
  5. ^ Hadas Gold: Billy Bush suspended from 'Today' show . In: POLITICO , October 9, 2016. 
  6. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/17/billy-bush-fired-nbc-donald-trump-tape-groping-women-leaked
  7. ↑ Variety
  8. ↑ Stefan Binder: Behind the scenes of the Trump scandal: the camera was gone, the microphone stayed on. In: derStandard.at. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, October 8, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bush, Billy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bush, William Hall (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American television and radio presenter
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City